off-centreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

off-centre (comparative more off-centre, superlative most off-centre)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Displaced from the centre.

   Place the decorations off-centre on the table.

2. (idiomatic) Eccentric, unbalanced, slightly wrong.

   Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.

   • 1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

     While Lahr's book was meticulously researched, the author had such deeply ambivalent feelings about Orton's relationship with Halliwwell (and probably with all gay relationships) that the book felt off-center.

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